We got these phone booths (a K6 from the 1930s, and a KX100 from the 1990s) for the Stripe lobby, as a reminder that there are always two paths in everything we make: something that elevates and makes you smile, or, well, whatever the thing on the right is.

Never lose sight of how good we have it

Cranbrook Doors

Hating Jews is a sign of low IQ.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is nothing other than an atheistic retelling of the lord's prayer

One disenfranchises oneself with the belief that to be enfranchised is to be whole, to be human

I ran The Gauntlet again... youtube.com/watch?v=IozVoS…

Can algorithmic city-building confer Meaning? Malé is the world's densest island. 90 min to circumvent and has ~200k people. Clearly there is dense Meaning in Malé as it is full of humans. Does algorithmically generating Malé-esque cities have Meaning? My feeling is no. But why?

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Every time you dunk on someone’s stupid, evil, unacceptable behavior and message, imagine yourself serving them. A slave on the line every other hater, towing the blocks up the pyramid, building the idol of oppression you hate. Attention is care, energy, fuel: starve them out.

My contrarian take: this is good. It follows in the anglo tradition of "Ruin Lust" which has recently been in the timeline (x.com/Aelthemplaer/s…). It's a reminder. Of how delicate our civilization is. Of how beautiful our monuments are. And that it is our duty to maintain them

Twelve years is crazy. I am eternally grateful for this app. It has provided intellectual stimulation in times where I had nothing else. And real world changes when I needed them the most. 🙏 #MyXAnniversary

This is like SNL if SNL was still SNL

Videos like this make me sick at my stomach. You just know they felt unstoppable.

love trash day. love hearing that truck. humans getting stuff done. cooperation. logistics. municipal services. civilization.

Back where it all started